2019 Power Rankings: Week 2
Happy Thursday everyone! Little late in the week for the
Power Rankings but, you know, we’re all busy people. And, in all honesty, I’ve
been slightly putting off writing this. You loyal followers come here for sage,
expert opinion (right?) and what I offered in Week 1 was useless. My top 4
teams are now the bottom 4 teams in the league. Only one team I had in the top
half of the rankings won, so thank you to whoever the marvellous coach of Tom’s
Tyrants might be for sparing me from complete failure. Right, rant over, we’ll
do better this week.
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12. Buccing The Trend (1-0) – Down 2
This feels harsh. Getting your first win in the LOC should be celebrated and I encourage that it fully, but I want no misconceptions, 72 points isn’t going to win many games. Mayfield will have bigger games and Jackson will earn a bigger snap share if he keeps running how he did in Week 1, but I’m struggling to find much excitement outside of Kamara on this roster. They need Gordon and/or Green back.
11. The Green Mile (1-0) – Up 1
Well Jacobs looks like he is going to be pretty handy, but
equally Guice and Coleman going down has robbed this team of the vast majority
of its depth. It was an impressive win, but one week into the season this team
already looks like it can’t afford another injury.
10. Patistan (0-1) – Down 7
Right, the good news; Le’Veon Bell looked great as the featured back and already has Darnold’s trust in the passing game (seriously watchback the 2PT conversion) and DeSean Jackson should slide in for the injured Hill nicely. The bad news; most everything else. Jameis Winston is going to be one heck of a rollercoaster ride this season.
9. Prater God I Do Better (0-1) – Down 7
What an appropriately timed name change, right? Last week we saw the floor of this team and it was ugly. The lack of RB style consistency highlighted a roster that was more boom or bust that it first seemed. Boy did they bust hard last week. Better (much better) scores to come.
8. Burdettinators (0-1) – No Change
I said they had a lot of questions coming out of the draft,
and I still have a lot of questions. The overall score was good no doubt, but
any game where you have a 40+ point QB, you should really be winning. Lots of
the starters looked underwhelming, but Williams and (particularly) Watkins look
set for big years. Dropping Hollywood was expensive, but Coach Burdett did well
to get his guy back.
7. The Dream Team (0-1) – Down 6
Well then, looks like I backed the wrong auto-draftee. Carson Wentz stopped this being horrible, but it was alarming to see not a single player live up to their draft stock. The good news is that Zeke will never have so few touches in a game again and Mixon seems to have avoided serious injury. Coach Nathwani will expect far more in Week 2.
6. Tom’s Tyrants (1-0) – No Change
Although they were my only top 6 team to win, it wasn’t overly impressive. The team showed some signs of balance however and Ekeler looks in for a good-sized role in wake of Gordon’s absence. If Murray doesn’t establish himself, this could turn into a season long game of QB roulette.
5. Gridiron Gang (0-1) – Down 1
The 69 points they put up in Week 1 sounds worse than it actually is, that’s not to say everything is sunshine and roses mind. Brady sliding into the lineup, would’ve turned this into a decent week, even with Freeman (3rd round pick) putting up 1.1 points. Devin Singletary could be a ready-made answer, looking electric in Week 1, and potentially quite the draft bargain.
4. Bear Necessities (0-1) – Up 1
One of the more well-rounded performances of the week and unlucky not to get the win for his efforts. Based on the Week 1 scoring, and equally the generally high scoring Week 1 in the NFL, it looks like the 100-point mark will carry more weight than past seasons. Watson looked really hot in the season opener.
3. Forge Flyers (1-0) – Up 8
This was my greatest mistake in the Week 1 edition. Turns out that the Colts top players will be absolutely fine without Mr. Luck. McCaffrey is a superstar and picking up Dak (as costly as it was) means that the team is less reliant on the Panthers. Coach Leach probably enjoyed the best Week 1 in the league.
2. The Tuckfards (1-0) – Up 7
Well, as stated last week, this roster has all the makings of a classic, top-heavy Tuckfards team. The security of the early Mahomes draft pick could add the consistency that they lacked last year and mask the lower scoring players. The pick-up and play of John Ross has me reminiscing of the great Kevin Ogletree, will it go better than that did?
1. IKSAN (1-0) – Up 6
Coach Sherwood will have been very happy to see his stable
of RBs dominating their respective snap shares, they could prove a dangerous
trio. Combined with a stable QB in Brees and DST in the Bears, this team looks
set up for consistent scoring. The receiver depth looks decent enough to play
the matchups.
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Well, there you go, I’ve tried to keep the rankings from
being too reactive, it was only one game after all, but it was reasonably unavoidable so lots of movers and
shakers in Week 1 nonetheless. Stay tuned to see if future weeks prove me to be
a little less hilariously wrong.
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